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Stanley’s here!!!

For those of you who are not familiar with Flat Stanley, here is the scoop: one day, I received a letter in the mail. Inside the envelop, there was a note:

Dear Jessie,
I am in the second grade at Delaware Trail Elementary School. This week we read a story called Flat Stanley. This story is about a little boy who becomes flat because he is smashed by a bulletin board. His parents are able to mail him in an envelope to visit his friend in California because he is flat. He also discovers many things he can now do because he is flat. Everyone in my class is sending their own Flat Stanley to someone and I chose you. I would really appreciate it, if you would mail my Flat Stanley back to school using the address on the back of the page. if you would like you can include a note and or pictures of what Stanley did when he was with you. My class will love hearing about his adventures. My class and I are ging to use a map to locate where each Stanley went and figure out how far each one traveled. We hope they all make it back to our classroom safely.

Thanks for your help,
Marcus

Stanley is such a cool travel buddy I thought that I would take him with me to my trip to Poland last weekend! We left Hungary on a Thursday afternoon and flew into Krakow, Poland.

Poland and Hungary are both former communist countries so I was expecting them to be similar. To my surpise, they were actually quite different! Both are very beautiful cities but in much different ways. Krakow is more of a pedestrian city and just more people in the streets. Check out these beautiful buildings that Stanley got to check out!

We didn’t spend all of our time in the big city. We also got to visit the country side. Stanley’s favorites were all the animals he got to see. Wool is one of the textiles that Poland is famous for. Stanley got to see some of the sheep that produce this wool!

Even though we were on top of a mountain checking out the sheep, seemingly out in the middle of nowhere - would you guess it: THEY HAVE INTERNET!! haha - we can’t get away from the wonderful, world wide web!

We finished out trip back in the ski resort village of Zakopane. What a beautiful place! I think Stanley enjoyed the fresh air of the mountains.

Thanks for the visit, Stanley!! I know it hurt a bit… but I really think this ‘getting smashed by a bullentin board’ was a good thing for you!

See you…. next time!